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title: That year, the conquistador Francisco Hernández de Córdoba founded t… — Nicaragua · tree and pragmatics
description: That year, the conquistador Francisco Hernández de Córdoba founded two of Nicaragua's main cities: Granada on Lake Nicaragua, and then León, west of Lake Managua. Who acts: conquistador. A sentence of Wikipedia's «Nicaragua» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Nicaragua, sentence 51

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From Wikipedia, [«Nicaragua»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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That year, the conquistador Francisco Hernández de Córdoba founded two of Nicaragua's main cities: Granada on Lake Nicaragua, and then León, west of Lake Managua.

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**Who acts:** conquistador · **What happens:** found · **To what, where:** two

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Nicaragua». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conquistador), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Nicaragua:51
# text = That year, the conquistador Francisco Hernández de Córdoba founded two of Nicaragua's main cities: Granada on Lake Nicaragua, and then León, west of Lake Managua.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	conquistador	conquistador	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	Francisco	Francisco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	Hernández	Hernández	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
9	Córdoba	Córdoba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
10	founded	found	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Granada	Granada	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	Nicaragua	Nicaragua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
25	León	León	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	west	west	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	Managua	Managua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **found** | past | the conquistador | two of Nicaragua's main cities |  |  | year | Granada on Lake and León *obl*; west *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Nicaragua», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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